Imagine a device that transformed all of the inefficient parts of your life into something clean and straightforward. Instead of spending an hour cleaning—picking everything up, wiping down surfaces, scrubbing the floors, vacuuming, taking out the trash, and on and on—you were able to activate this device and get all of this monotony taken care of in 5 minutes. Using this kind of a device would be a no-brainer, right? Well, that’s what common sense would suggest. And yet, for some reason, people, including me, are constantly resisting tools that help simplify their online trading experience. I have a theory as to why. In short, there are two types of people when it comes to money and investing. The first are the type that will most likely never read a post like this. People who want someone else—a financial advisor, a bank, a roboadvisor—to handle their finances so they never have to think about it. When they turn 65 or 67, they’ll check in and see what kind of life is ahead of them. Then there’s the second kind, of which I’m a part. The types of people who are deeply invested, if you’ll excuse the pun, in their financial futures. People who want to know every single cent they’re in control of, and maximize their profits wherever and however they can. The people in the second group are wary, and justifiably so, of any outside influence on their money. And, certainly, they don’t want people to have access to their accounts. People in group 2 are aware that there are a million scams out there—that the world is constantly devising to separate you from your hard earned cash. Now, for so much of my life, I was deeply in group two. I didn’t want to hear about anything that would influence my ways of making money. Anytime someone told me of a way to make my trading easier, I flinched away. I assumed there was a catch. And most of the time there was. But then I found something that transformed how I trade. Something like the magical device I mentioned in the first paragraph. Something that ended up saving me literal hours every week. And, once I started using it, I couldn’t believe I’d spent years trading without it. I’d spent years hearing about different analytic tools and even experimented with some. But ultimately I found most of them to be over-complicated or too expensive. Then I heard about Chaikin Analytics. Chaikin Analytics is affordable—$25 a month with a 2 week free trial—and just makes sense. It has actual expert advice, not useless drivel, it presents analytic information in a way that would satisfy any experienced trader or layman, and managed to find the weakspots in my portfolio, seeing things I never could. But, really, this post is about time. And Chaikin Analytics cuts out all of the bland clutter, the endless research, the hours at the computer. Who knew 5 minutes could change your life forever?